Subcommittee Reviews FY27 Budgets, Plans Warrant Articles
The Water & Wastewater Subcommittee reviewed FY27 budgets with water declining $25,000 and wastewater increasing $11,000, with no change to projected rate increases. Subcommittee member B. Craft moved to support the budgets conditioned on no rate changes.
Waste Water Subcommittee · Meeting of January 22, 2026
IPSWICH — The Water & Wastewater Subcommittee reviewed FY27 budgets with water declining $25,000 and wastewater increasing $11,000, with no change to projected rate increases. Subcommittee member B. Craft moved to support the budgets conditioned on no rate changes.
The panel reviewed draft warrant articles for annual town meeting requesting $3 million for wastewater system upgrades and repurposing $1 million from the completed Plover Hill Water Storage Tank project to Browns and Mile Lane Wells Rehabilitation. The subcommittee deferred the $5.5 million Lynch Well project from this town meeting pending permit authorization.
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Source: the Waste Water Subcommittee meeting of January 22, 2026, compiled from the official minutes.
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